The Closer
"They'll bring you in. She'll make you talk."
NetflixDeputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
Season 1
Season 1 opens with the LAPD's new Priority Murder Squad (PMS), soon renamed the Priority Homicide Division (PHD), under the direction of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson investigates the murder of a technological genius. Brenda has recently joined LAPD after a long career in law enforcement, including with the Atlanta and Washington, D.C., Police Departments. We soon learn Brenda is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, was CIA-trained, and was recruited by her former married lover, Assistant Chief Will Pope. Brenda is resented as an outsider by much of the LAPD and seen as an adversary by Robbery-Homicide's Captain Taylor, who initially persuades her squad to request transfers en masse in an unsuccessful effort to force Brenda's resignation. Brenda soon wins over her assistant, Sgt. David Gabriel, and the grudging admiration of the team when she shows them why she is called a closer; but her battle is far from over. As the season progresses, we see Brenda struggle to establish her authority and earn the respect of her squad, despite the efforts of Taylor and Detective Lt. Andy Flynn to both undermine her authority and hamper her investigations. Slowly, one-by-one, Brenda wins over her team; and, by season's end, she has earned the loyalty of them all, even the hard-boiled Det. Flynn, as they stand united against Capt. Taylor's final attempt to remove Brenda from the squad.
Season 2
Brenda is now firmly established as leader of Priority Homicide, with her team firmly behind her. The theme for Season 2 is partnerships, which is established as the opening episode centers around an exploration of partnership within the LAPD and in Brenda's life. The theme plays out as the Flynn/Provenza partnership comes front and center early in the season and as Brenda's relationship with Gabriel grows and strengthens while she forms an uneasy working alliance with Commander Taylor. At the same time, Brenda's romance with Fritz grows serious as they make the decision whether they should live together.
Season 3
The theme for Season Three is family. The PHD has now come together as a unified division, and their stories center on how they function as a family that must cope with a budget crisis. Episodes this season explore issues of family, beginning with a tale of bigamy, and ending with two stories of family pitted against one another. The season also explores the elements of family life in America, the secrets a family keeps and the horrors a family must face. In Brenda's personal life, we meet her father for the first time along with Fritz, with some interesting results. Brenda faces a personal health crisis even as her relationship with Fritz takes a large step forward.
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Season 7
Cast (800)
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Directors
Michael M. Robin
Director
Rick Wallace
Director
Ages 57-64
Arvin Brown
Director
Ages 65-72
Nelson McCormick
Director
Steve Robin
Director
Elodie Keene
Director
Ages 56-63
James Duff
Director
Ages 49-56
Roxann Dawson
Director
Ages 46-53
Kevin Bacon
Director
Ages 46-54
David McWhirter
Director
Roger Young
Director
Ages 63-70
Gloria Muzio
Director
Scott Ellis
Director
Ages 48-55
Nicole Kassell
Director
Ages 33-40
Anthony Hemingway
Director
Ages 28-35
Tawnia McKiernan
Director
Ages 36-43
Stacey K. Black
Director
Michael Pressman
Director
Ages 54-62
Sheelin Choksey
Director
Ages 28-35
Matt Earl Beesley
Director
Matthew Penn
Director
Jon Tenney
Director
Ages 43-50
Adam Arkin
Director
Ages 48-55
Jesse Bochco
Director
Ages 30-37
Greg Yaitanes
Director
Ages 34-42
Greer Shephard
Director
Lesli Linka Glatter
Director
Ages 51-59
Paul McCrane
Director
Ages 44-51
Charles Haid
Director
Ages 62-69
Craig Zisk
Director
Writers
James Duff
Writer
Ages 49-56
Steven Kane
Writer
Ages 36-43
Mike Berchem
Writer
Adam Belanoff
Writer
Ages 43-50
Michael Alaimo
Writer
Ages 34-41
John Coveny
Writer
Hunt Baldwin
Writer
Duppy Demetrius
Writer
Leo Geter
Writer
Ken Martin
Writer
Wendy West
Writer
Jim Leonard
Writer
Ralph Gifford
Writer
Roger Wolfson
Writer
Rick Kellard
Writer
Carson Moore
Writer
Ken Martin
Writer
Producers
Greer Shephard
Executive Producer
Michael M. Robin
Executive Producer
James Duff
Executive Producer
Ages 49-56
Kyra Sedgwick
Producer
Ages 39-46
Kyra Sedgwick
Executive Producer
Ages 39-46
Rick Wallace
Executive Producer
Ages 57-64
Andrew J. Sacks
Producer
Michael Weiss
Producer
Ronald Chong
Producer
Patrick McKee
Producer
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English
Production Countries
US
Production Companies
The Shephard/Robin Company, Walking Entropy, Warner Bros. Television